Well, at least they both won Oscars! During an interview on Howard Stern's radio show Wednesday, Jan. 15, film producer and studio head Harvey Weinstein revealed that Anne Hathaway had originally been given Jennifer Lawrence's role in Silver Linings Playbook, but dropped out due to "creative differences."

"Does it drive you insane when you can't get your starlet, the one you know that is going to be right for the movie?" Stern asked The Weinstein Company co-chairman. "It doesn't drive me insane because I've always believed if we can't get somebody established, we'll find somebody new," Weinstein, 61, said. "I'll give you an idea: Silver Linings Playbook was originally going to be with Anne Hathaway and Mark Wahlberg . . . and then Anne wasn't doing it. And she's marvelous, and wonderful and she was my choice, I love her."

"You made a move to get Anne Hathaway and you couldn't get her?" Stern asked."No we got her," Weinstein confirmed. "We had Annie and then we had Mark . . . then whatever happened, happened." What exactly was it that happened?

"Well, David and Anne had some creative differences," Weinstein confessed. "They didn't see eye-to-eye."

"I bet she's kicking herself in the head," Stern quipped about not appearing in the acclaimed 2012 blockbuster. (Wahlberg was also replaced in Silver Linings Playbook by Bradley Cooper. In the film, Lawrence played a quirky, mentally unstable widow named Tiffany Maxwell who falls in love with Cooper's Patrick "Pat" Solitano, Jr., a Philadelphia-area man who suffers from bipolar disorder.)

"Well, whatever. I don't think so," the studio exec said. "She went on to win the Academy Award for Les Miserables -- maybe we're kicking [ourselves] in the head.""Then Jennifer Lawrence and two or three other actress came in, and the minute we saw Jennifer Lawrence's tape . . . Because I said, 'How the hell are we gonna replace Annie?' And then this amazing creature walked in who is a brilliant actress, and so much fun, and she won an Oscar." (At last year's Oscars, Hathaway, 31, won Best Supporting Actress for Les Miserables, while Lawrence, 23, won Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook. Lawrence is expected to garner another Oscar nomination in yet another Russell production -- American Hustle -- when Academy Award nominations are announced on Thursday.)

As it turns out, Silver Linings Playbook wasn't the first time Hathaway has turned down a movie role that went on to become a big hit. In an interview with the July 2012 issue of Allure, Hathaway said dropped out of Katherine Heigl's role in the 2007 comedy Knocked Up due to a graphic birth scene.

"I thought about that [director] Judd [Apatow] was right to include the shot. I didn't disagree with the shot," she explained. "My issue with it was that having not experienced motherhood myself, I didn't know how I was gonna feel on the other side about giving birth. Because giving birth involves another human being, I didn't feel it was fair for me to make that call for myself." She added, "And by the way, I could pop out a kid and think, 'Oh, well, really should have done that movie.'"

i love her too, but to me it mirrored the joaquin phoenix/reese witherspoon situation when walk the line came out. joaquin was incredible, but he was a springboard for everyone in that movie and got outshone like bcoop.

I always liked Bradley before that movie but in a very casual way, y'know? And I was already attached to SLP as a book so I went into the movie with low expectations. But I ended up thinking he did an amazing job. I mean, that scene when he really loses it looking for his wedding video... As someone who suffers from mental health issues and has had incidents just like that, I was like WOW.

agreed. There are I think two scenes in the movie where Brad has to cry as Pat and each time, the camera is on his back or on someone else and you have to listen close to hear it. Pisses me off every time. What a wasted opportunity to make me as a viewer, weep. I need that for these movies.

Bradley was fantastic in this movie and really surprised me. I wish he would have gotten some awards for this, but the best actor categories were stacked last year. Even if DDL was out of the equation it would have been hard for him to beat Joaquin and Hugh.

He was so amazing in that film. I really felt for him and related to him. Tiffany on the other hand...and jens performance...ehhhhhhhh. I think she acted better in the Hunger games and catching fire to be honest. lol

I loved him in it too. He reminded me a lot of my brother and the struggles he has with his anger, and when I told my brother he got all misty because he saw himself in the role too. That's probably why I liked the character so much, Bradley really made him feel real

I think he did this on I Heart Huckabees to Lily Tomlin and to the extras/crew on the Three Kings set. This is a quote from Clooney:

[on working with David O. Russell on Three Kings (1999)] He'd throw off his headset and scream, "Today the sound department fucked me!" For me, it came to a head a couple of times. Once, he went after a camera-car driver who I knew from high school. I had nothing to do with his getting his job, but David began yelling and screaming at him and embarrassing him in front of everybody. I told him, "You can yell and scream and even fire him, but what you can't do is humiliate him in front of people. Not on my set, if I have any say about it". Another time, he screamed at the script supervisor and made her cry. I wrote him a letter and said, "Look, I don't know why you do this. You've written a brilliant script, and I think you're a good director. Let's not have a set like this. I don't like it and I don't work well like this". I'm not one of those actors who likes things in disarray. He read the letter and we started all over again. But later, we were three weeks behind schedule, which puts some pressure on you, and he was in a bad mood. These army kids, who were working as extras, were supposed to tackle us. There were three helicopters in the air and 300 extras on the set. It was a tense time, and a little dangerous, too. David wanted one of the extras to grab me and throw me down. This kid was a little nervous about it, and David walked up to him and grabbed him. He pushed him onto the ground. He kicked him and screamed, "Do you want to be in this fucking movie? Then throw him to the fucking ground!" The second assistant director came up and said, "You don't do that, David. You want them to do something, you tell me". David grabbed his walkie-talkie and threw it on the ground. He screamed, "Shut the fuck up! Fuck you", and the AD goes, "Fuck you! I quit". He walked off. It was a dangerous time. I'd sent him this letter. I was trying to make things work, so I went over and put my arm around him. I said, "David, it's a big day. But you can't shove, push or humiliate people who aren't allowed to defend themselves". He turned on me and said, "Why don't you just worry about your fucked-up act? You're being a dick. You want to hit me? You want to hit me? Come on, pussy, hit me". I'm looking at him like he's out of his mind. Then, he started banging me on the head with his head. He goes, "Hit me, you pussy. Hit me". Then, he got me by the throat and I went nuts. Waldo, my buddy, one of the boys, grabbed me by the waist to get me to let go of him. I had him by the throat. I was going to kill him. Kill him. Finally, he apologized, but I walked away. By then, the Warner Bros. guys were freaking out. David sort of pouted through the rest of the shoot and we finished the movie, but it was truly, without exception, the worst experience of my life.

am i the only one who thinks bradley cooper is hilarious? i know it's the material but there's also something about the way he delivers his lines in these kinda roles, i just saw american hustle and he had me cracking the fuck up